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The Manhattan Mercury from Manhattan, Kansas • 9

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Notre Dame 10 Nebraska 51 Oklahoma 28 Colorado 30 Iowa State Georgia Tech 7 State 13 Kansas 24 State 6 Missouri 31 Ohio State 10 19 Purdue 7 Other scores on page B2 r-n naskers blast Cafe Nebraska converts -State misplays Continued from Page Al second unit for a fourth quarter touchdown. Reserve wingback Chris Chapin got the first touchdown of his college career on a one yard plunge. Dickey's pass to Mike Creed for the two-point conversion was incomplete. Dickey threw his first interception on the initial offensive series of the game. Throwing into a 20 mile an hour wind, Dickey lofted a wobbly Nebraska defenders bumbed Montgomery as he went up, and the pass fell to the ground.

Montgomery, angered by the fact he thought pass interference should have been called, charged an official and gave him a shove. The official gave Montgomery a 15 yard penalty and ejected him from the game. So, instead of the Cats having a first and goal, Nebraska had the ball at its own 49 as the penalty was marked off from the. point of the infraction. K-State kept the Huskers from, scoring again before the half when Ron Dickerson intercepted a Tagge to Rodgers pass in the end zone.

Nebraska, now 8-0-1 on the season and 6-0 in the Big Eight, can win the conference title outright against Oklahoma next Saturday. Kansas State, now 6-4 and 5-2, will finish out its season against Florida State at Tallahassee. The -nr Y-cT'v' A( ft i 7i bomb that never reached an intended receiver. Line Linebacker Jerry Murtaugh grabbed it and returned to the Wildcat 30. On the first play, Johnny Rodgers broke loose off tackle and scampered all the way.

Rogers booted the PAT, and Nebraska was in front to stay, 7-0, with 12:48 still left in the first quarter. The Wildcats could do nothing against the wind and Nebraska kept excellent field position. Late in the quarter, the Cornhuskers took over at their own 48 following a punt. Tagge drove them for the TD in eight plays. Orduna bolted off tackle from the three.

He fumbled the ball as he fell into the end zone but quickly gathered it back in. Rogers converted and Nebraska was in front, 14-0, with 22 seconds left in the quarter. With the wind at their backs in the second period, the Wildcats finally got a break. On fourth down at the Nebraska 49, Mike Kuhn broke through and blocked his fourth punt of the season. Leo Brouhard, gloves on both hands to protect against the cold, picked up the bounding ball and returned it to the NU 23.

A motion play chilled things on the first play, but then Dickey started 1V1 ercury i til 1 Sports The Manhattan Mercury IB Sunday, November 15, 1970 Honda State defeats VPI 34-8 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -Tommy Warren's devastating air-ground attack, supported by David Snell's 96-yard kickoff return and Frank Fontes two field goals, gave bowl-minded Florida State a 34-8 homecoming football win over Virginia Tech Saturday. Warren completed 18 of 27 passes for 285 yards, and turned runner eight times for 99 yards rushing. Rhett Dawson caught eight passes for 131 vards. soothe the ache of a 51-13 pasting, however, which carried with it the end of K-State's Big Eight championship hopes.

(Mercury staff photos by Fred Wrightman.) SOME CONSOLATION With only a few minutes to play, reserve back Chris Chapin crashes into the end zone for Kansas State's second touchdown against Nebraska. Chapin's one-yard tally did little to Vince agrees Nebraska 's great im.il. -y. iwmiuH'UMHiw (Continued from page 1) ground game in gear. "We hoped to run at first," he commented, "but we lust couldn't.

warming up. He hit Henry Hawthorne for 12 "Reallv we had to run in the first vards down to the 16. A holding The Senior quarterback's 384 total yards was the third best total offense performance in a single game at FSU. Bill Cappleman accumulated 490 and 431 yards in 1969 and 1968-games-. Snell, a tough, quick sophomore, got key blocks by John Lanahan and Shane Gibbs in a 96-yard sprint for a touchdown in FSU's longest kickoff return by one individual to open the third quarter.

quarter, going into the wind." penalty on the next play put the Cats But Dickey found back at the 28 yards and a first Goerger for 17 down at the 11. Butler got two off tackle, and then Dickey hit Mike Montgomery on the right side for the TD. Max Arreguin kicked the extra point, and the Cats were back in the game at 14-7 with 11:17 left in the half. But Nebraska came right back and marched 61 yards in 2 plays against the wind. Orduna broke off tackle for 16 yards and the touchdown.

Rogers' kick made it, 21-7, with 6:42 showing. Speedy Sun Devils coast to 37-14 win TEMPE, Ariz. (AP)-Arizona State University's speedy Sun Devils shook off a slow start and sped to a 37-14 Western Athletic Conference Dickey's only pass of the period was wobbly, and picked off. The Nebraska rush never flustered Dickey, who finished with 22 completions for 255 yards. Sophomore John Goerger was his principal target, catching five tosses for 93 yards.

But Goerger's defensive couterpart, Nebraska's Joe Blahak intercepted three tosses aimed at Goerger. "You don't win many games with seven interceptions," a dejected Dickey noted. The target of an orange bombardment by Nebraska fans after the game, Dickey credited a strong Husker defense. "They played well," he noted. "They are a great team." "A super team," added Gibson.

"For the 50th time I'll say it, they're a tremendous team." football victory over Utah here K-State was moving the ball, too Dickey moved the Cats from there Saturday to remain among the ranks own 27 to the Husker 36 before of the undefeated. Senior quarterback Joe Spagnola tossed a pair of touchdown passes as six different Sun Devils got on the scoreboard. bogging down. On fourth, down, Dickey tried to fake the field goal. He rolled out and threw for Montgomery near the goal line.

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